[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Hi Everyone, What Time is the Chat Tonight?

Mon Jan 16 16:53:39 UTC 2023

Good Morning Melinda, it is at 7:30 P M Eastern.

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Of Melinda Koons via NFB-Krafters-Korner
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2023 9:29 AM
To: Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Melinda Koons <melinda.koons at outlook.com>
Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] Hi Everyone, What Time is the Chat Tonight?

Hi Everyone,
What time is the chat tonight?
Just wondering.
I want to make sure that I'm there on time.
Blessings,
Melinda

On 1/16/2023 6:51 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner wrote:
> I think, if you did this, you would need 2 balls of your border color.  
> You would knit the border in color A up to the picture, change to 
> color B for the picture, then change back to A to finish the border on 
> the other side of the picture.  You would twist the 2 colors together 
> at the back each time you changed color, to prevent there being a 
> hole.  You would only have a strand where you added B and where you 
> ended B, which would be ends you'd have to weave in.
> Tracy
> 
> 
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> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org> On 
> Behalf Of Sarah Calhoun via NFB-Krafters-Korner
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2023 2:47 PM
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> Cc: Sarah Calhoun <sc-tico at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] nautical afghan
> 
> Hi Bernice,
> 
> You mentioned you use a different color when knitting the actual 
> picture of the square. When it is time to knit making the shape, is 
> this where you change to the second color? Does this leave strands of 
> yarn in the back of the square? I would like to try knitting a square 
> using a dominat color for the design. I have knitted several squares 
> from Designs by Emily and enjoy them.
> 
> Take care,
> Sarah Calhoun
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> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org> On 
> Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2023 12:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] nautical afghan
> 
> Neat!
> I've made 2 picture blankets so far.  I really like them.  On the 
> first, for myself, I knit in 2 or 3 braille letters into the border of 
> the picture, enough so I could remember what the picture was, if it 
> wasn't clear.  I just purled a stitch instead of knitting.  I wrote 
> con sign ch sign for the conch shell, and cl for the clam--like that.
> On the other, for my sister, I stacked up the finished squares and put 
> a bit of braille card on top of each, saying what it was.  I also 
> wrote down the colors of each, so I could arrange them when all the
squares were done.
> 
> I hope you will tell us your colors and squares when you're done.
> Tracy
> 
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> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bernice 
> Bird via NFB-Krafters-Korner
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2023 11:59 AM
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> Cc: Bernice Bird
> Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] nautical afghan
> 
> My senior brain is having trouble remembering who taught the nautical 
> afghan. I was thinking it was Sarah C, but now I think it was Yolanda. 
> I was wondering if there was a place to view pictures of the finished 
> squares, since my friend was having a little trouble identifying some 
> of the pictures. If I were to do an afghan like this again, I would 
> make the background one color and the picture a second color. My 
> friend says I have 2 palm trees.
> 
> I also found that the medium blue yarn I used must have been a bit 
> thinner, even though it said 4 ply, and had the same number. I am 
> going to have to pick up stitches on the 4 edges and make it a little 
> bigger. I so hate, like most people to pull anything out that I have
finished.
> 
> I always ask Alexa what color things are supposed to be, and she says 
> that a clam can be almost any color. Mine will be either purple or orange.
> 
> Bernice
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